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Comment · 8 days ago
What is Looker?
Comment · 8 days ago
Next time stop the car and only listen
Comment · 8 days ago
What are the target FPS and where do they know from?
Comment · 9 days ago
Nice domain, UNSW!

web.maths.unsw.edu.au fills the whole address bar on mobile

Comment · 15 days ago
What a fitting name Christopher has
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Comment · 2 months ago
The year predicted for the glacier's collapse was an extrapolation based on data and models available at the time. While the timing was off, the thing is going away visibly for everyone!

In hindsight they shouldn't have set the date, but contrast the fast decline with the long existence. Maybe even let people guess or bet the exact year to involve them and make them think.

Comment · 2 months ago
> geoengineering could go wrong

Sure. If one path leads to certain doom and the other into the unknown, which one do you choose?

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Comment · 2 months ago
> temperatures recover

Not. so. fast.

Comment · 2 months ago
Can't we just pour the waste water from desalination plants into the arctic abyss to keep AMOC going?
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Comment · 2 months ago
Right, and I think now I understand you better:

>> targeted humans

With utilitarian and anthropocentric world view you mean the 'target thinking' ascribing intention to nature, and not what is targeted, which are only incidentally humans here.

Comment · 2 months ago
Why would a random thing in the world specifically target anything? Nature throws things against the wall and keeps what sticks.

Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedychrum_rutilans, a parasite on a parasite. Did it target beewolves specifically? And now its hosts are dying, was it his fault he chose the 'wrong' target?

Not the anthropocentricity is to criticise, but the idea of nature targeting. OP asked a well meaning question where sth. can be be learned from. Thank you.

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